I must say that of all my mechanical keyboards, the black widow is my LEAST favorite. Blue (or brown in the stealth edition) switches for gaming? Meh. It was also the most expensive for the privilege of blue lights and 5 macro keys. When I received it the left control key would stick constantly, which would make…

Nomination: Steelseries Sensei.

Wouldn't the point being low key be more related to the fact that if dropbox gets hacked, they have my data. If I use a local host (a server in my closet) then I don't have to worry about losing my data if dreamhost gets hacked. I don't know that much about security but I get VERY few hits to my personal site, most I…

Stuff like eyefinity has bezel compensation but you lose a bit behind the bezel. Depending on the game you lose nothing or sometimes important stuff

I had a blackwidow ultimate but changed to a Leopold with MX cherry reds and blank key caps after noise chiding from roommates. It wasn't really complaining but they made it known that they could hear me.

Nothing unethical, in the united states its still illegal. Similarly if you own a DVD, but scratch it, burning a copy of a friend's identical DVD is illegal. Similar to how in many modern digital distributed games you aren't buy the game, but a license to use the game (you don't own the game), with old physical media,…

There is (or was) a limited list of CD keys that can be used in steam. My Oblivion CD key? No good, if you want it: rebuy it. Doom3 also didn't work. The list of games that you can activate with retail keys is here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php…
"Note: Only the retail games listed above can be…

Depends on the emulator. I remember for PS1 emulators they often distributed them without the BIOS file, because the BIOS was protected just like a ROM would be. and you had to find that online from the shady parts of the internet.

Because chrome os is simple and fast. a lot of the options are quite affordable. but it can't do EVERYTHING, seeing as the point of the OS is chrome only and not everything has a chrome app (although the amount of things that do is amazing). Getting full linux going has benefits to adding the ability to add other…

The kids call it the belly button...

Totally agreed.

I feel bad for gaming when people only play one game. I was recently talking to an old gaming buddy. He asked me "So what've you been playing lately?" and it struck an unusual chord with me. Among "gamers" its a perfectly logical question... and that brought to mind the eternal "what defines a TRUE gamer" debate. You…

Bah. I hate when the guy saying less sleep is good is technically correct.

Im the opposite. I tend to work more productively from home because I feel the need to validate working from home.

Theres also a difference between "windows 8 pcs" and "windows 8" ... my home built desktop doesnt have any problems installing linux after windows 8.

It didn't need it "at launch" because of RMAH. it needed it to have it in general because of the RMAH. Which means the server validates all item pickups and various other functions are done server side to prevent cheating, meaning the client can't do anything by itself because it literally doesn't have all the…

the RMAH was a valid reason to have always on. what is simcities reason? just DRM? because thats dumb.

D3 had RMAH (for better or worse (better in my opinion, gets rid of 3rd party trade sites)) which means real money involved meaning server side validation of items gained/sold is a valid reason to require online connectivity. Its a primarily multiplayer game with a solo option. Which sucks for people who play it…

Perhaps... but I have only used "windows search" as depicted in the screenshot once or twice ever. In my mind they are separate entities despite probably using the same tool.

Yeah I dont use "windows search" I just hit the windows key and start typing. Very similar to spotlight. I've been using gnome3 lately and its basically the same way (although it doesn't seem like it searches files as well, just apps to launch)